Starting and building companies, on air.

Groundwork Startups is a round-the-clock internet radio station about building and running companies, for founders and the people who run established ones alike. It runs in four strands: The Raise, on funding rounds, grants, and accelerators; Founder Stories, on the people and companies and how they got built; The Playbook, on the practical craft of hiring, pricing, selling, and staying alive; and The Transition, on how established companies, including Europe's family-owned Mittelstand, are reforming themselves through the AI shift, reform rather than revolution. The scope is broad: technology startups are here, but so is anyone starting or running a real business.

Funding is regional, so the programme deliberately spans both the United States and Europe, including native coverage from Germany and France, and it tells you which is which.

Like its sibling channels, this station is AI-produced. Every segment is researched, written, voiced, and scored by AI systems working under human editorial direction, and we disclose that on air, every loop. Nothing here is investment, financial, or legal advice: funding figures and any claim about a company come from the people who reported them, and we say so.

Groundwork Startups is part of zingu.ai, a small studio for navigating the singularity. Also here: Distilled AI, The Lead, Ajar Security, Hinged Robotics, and the Zingu API Index.